Follow the plan

When you do something wholeheartedly you get wholehearted progress.

After having been off for more than six months last year I decided to come back and reverse the damage I had done over that time.  I eased back in.  I started gaining strength in the gym upping weights as each week progressed. I was eating mostly ok….. I continued on like this. Strength gains were achieved…yet I still hadn’t lost the pounds I wanted. My weight last week(jan. 24, 2015) topped out at 170 lbs. How discouraging!? The scale is not going in the direction I wanted it to…but when I really got honest with myself, I wasn’t eating as well as I should to lose the fat.

I was trusting the process, but I wasn’t fully doing it wholeheartedly. I knew what I needed to do. I even had a plan laid out and a meal plan to follow!  Why was it so hard?!?  Why couldn’t I just do it like I did back in 2006.

I do NOT want to be 170 lbs! I want to be in that fit body! I’ve got to do this!!!

Here’s the thing, even though my weight had gone up I knew I was getting stronger and I felt like my muscles were growing once again and I was getting stronger!  That was good! That meant something WAS happening under the skin, under the fat. So my mentor suggests to me once again I follow the meal plan I had already laid out. If I did that he felt I should see progress by the end of the week. 

So I mentions this to my boyfriend and I question my ability to be able to do it, as I hadn’t done it yet so far.  His response, “You got this !”   And so it was with the belief of both my mentor and my boyfriend that I set out in my mind that I was gonna do it!  I had to do it! I couldn’t let them down!  I couldn’t let myself down! 

So I set it in my mind!  I’m doing it! I’m gonna stay on plan!  I’ll make my meals and do it!  No exceptions! 

So I come into Friday night and decide to weigh myself!  163…and then again on Saturday morning. 162!!!  I take my measurements…dropped an inch on my hips and 1.5 inches on my waist. 

Was this a fluke?! I did I actually lose 8lbs in one week?!?  I weighed myself again on Sunday morning. 166.  Maybe it was just water weight?  Either way, the scale went down at least 4 lbs and my measurements did go down as well! 

Take home points for me this week:

Follow the Plan! It works!

Persist!

Believe in yourself like those close to you believe in you.

When you give wholeheartedly, progress is inevitable.